"Com més vell més poc cervell."

"So obliging that he ne'er oblig'd."

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

"Humane nature I always thought the most useful object of humane reason, and to make the consideration of it pleasant …"

"Of all his works he was most proud of his garden."

"'Tis fixed, the irrevocable doom of Jove; No force can bend me, no persuasion move."

"A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicat…"

"Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground."

"Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise."

"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie."